Proust, Marcel. À la recherche du temps perdu. 8 parts in 13 volumes. Paris, Bernard Grasset, Nouvelle Revue Francaise, 1913-1927. 8°. Dark blue morocco master bindings (sign. M. Fray) with gilt spine titles, typographic and geometric cover design in blind and color embossing, and three-page gilt edges. gilt edges. Mirror and endpaper covers of different colored chamois leather. Original brochures bound in. In marbled slipcases (spine with slight rubbing and stains, slipcase VI segments somewhat detached). Pierre-Quint 55. - First edition. - Includes: 1. Du côté de chez Swann (copy with the corrected publication date, year 1914 on title), one of 12 copies (GA 17). 2. À l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs, one of 64 copies (GA 70). 3. le coté de guermantes I, one of 800 copies (GA 1030). 4. Le coté de guermantes II Sodome et Gomorrhe I, one of 800 copies (GA 1030). 5. Sodome et Gomorrhe II, one of 850 copies (GA 880). 6. La Prisonnière, Sodome et Gomorrhe III, one of 875 copies (GA 905). 7. Albertine disparue, one of 1200 copies (GA 1235). 8. Le temps retrouvé, one of 30 copies hors commerce, (GA 1374). - The present 8 novels of Marcel Proust form the main work of his oeuvre, and at the same time have an indispensable importance for the French novel literature of the early 20th century. The multi-part novel autobiographically recounts a lifelong allegorical search for truth, and stands out literarily both for its length and for its theme of involuntary memory. As a reference to childhood memories of the author received the Prix Goncourt in 1919 makes the author famous at a stroke. As a serious illness forced him to stop work in 1922 and Proust died shortly before, the last three parts appeared posthumously. - Very nice preserved first edition.